Exiled by his pack as a teen, Omega wolf Simon Moorehead learns to bury his gentle nature in the interest of survival. When a hulking, rough-faced Alpha catches Simon on pack territory, he tries to escape what he’s sure will be imminent death. But instead of killing him, the Alpha takes Simon home. A mate is a dream come true for Mitch, and he won’t let little things like Simon’s rejections, attacks, and insults get in their way. With patience, seduction, and genuine care, Mitch will ride out the storm while Simon slays his own ghosts and Mitch’s loneliness.

Blurb

Nick Grandiforte finds that winding down his career as a porn actor isn’t so easy, after all. Moving to a small town has made Nick’s life less complicated. But he hadn’t counted on meeting Austin, a local boy who will do anything to win Nick as a lover—including working in the adult entertainment industry himself. Nick doesn’t want Austin to make the mistakes Nick has made in his own life. But it’s hard for Nick to discourage Austin—or to keep an emotional distance between the two of them—when the action, on camera and off, is so intense.

Review

Nick is a porn star looking to back away from the sex industry and settle down. He isn’t really sure what he wants but he figures a small town in New York may be able to give it to him. Young Austin steps in and reminds him of who he used to be. He rejuvenates him. Nick is worried about the age difference and Austin isn’t sure if he is enough for a porn star. Will all their differences get in the way?

I admit it, sex industry plots are a kink of mine. There is just something so incredibly sexy about a jaded porn star rediscovering the joys of sex. For this plot to work, the character connection has to really be strong. It has to almost over shadow the plot to make it believable. While the characters here are good. Austin a young, dynamic man longing to be more than just a small town boy. His youthful dominance is especially compelling. However with that said, I didn’t like him. He treated is friend Jared horribly, to the point of being a bully. Nick is the true and blue, jaded, porn star. He isn’t so much a lost soul as a burnt out one looking for peace. Again the characters are strong characters that I wasn’t necessarily charmed by but interested in. Unfortunately their about the only thing working for the story. The sex had an over abundance of exclamation points and comparisons instead of good, detailed descriptions. The start of the book was the characters having intercourse which I didn’t necessarily like but I thought the author was maybe working backwards in the story. I thought we’d go from this intimate occasion to finding out how they meet, which eventually happened but after more than fifteen pages of it just being “he plugged my bunghole like a sledge hammer!”, you just want it to stop. I kept with it however and it did honestly get better. There was lots of repetitive sex but the plot slowly started to take off. The character's connection never really pulled together. The book ends abruptly on a climax with a to be continued, while I understand build up, this was just too sudden. There were some really good points but not enough for me to recommend this book.